Therapy Intensives
EMDR & Couples Intensives in Collegeville, PA and Online
A Targeted Path to Change
Going Beyond the Weekly Hour in Therapy. Deep Work for Deeper Change.
Traditional therapy, with its weekly 50 minute sessions, is a powerful tool. But some experiences are too deep, too stuck, or too foundational to be addressed in weekly bite-sized increments.
Our intensives, including EMDR and Couples Therapy are an immersive, focused, and accelerated form of therapy designed to create significant shifts in your internal landscape. Each intensive is personally designed to help you break through barriers, target core challenges, and experience transformative progress in a shorter amount of time.
This is not about fixing what is broken. It is about reconnecting with the parts of yourself you have had to wall off to get by.
Let's get started on your journey back to you →
Going Beyond the Weekly Hour. Deep Work for Deeper Change.
Traditional therapy, with its weekly 50 minute sessions, is a powerful tool. But some experiences are too deep, too stuck, or too foundational to be addressed in weekly bite-sized increments.
Our intensives, including EMDR and Couples Therapy are an immersive, focused, and accelerated form of therapy designed to create significant shifts in your internal landscape. Each intensive is personally designed to help you break through barriers, target core challenges, and experience transformative progress in a shorter amount of time.
This is not about fixing what is broken. It is about reconnecting with the parts of yourself you have had to wall off to get by.
Let's get started on your journey back to you →
coeo’s Intensive Therapy Services: Two Pathways for Deep & Accelerated Healing
While every person’s story is unique, the feeling of being stuck is universal. It’s the sense of being trapped in a pattern, a defensive posture, or a painful cycle that no amount of willpower seems to change.
Our therapy intensives are designed to address this fundamental stuckness. We offer two distinct, focused pathways to create significant and lasting change.
Each is a different door into the same process: the work of reconnection and wholeness.
An Intensive Might Be The Right Path For You If You Are...
The Person Who Feels Numb or Stuck
You are not in an acute crisis, but you feel a persistent sense of disconnection. Life seems to have lost its color, and you feel like you are going through the motions, walled off from your own emotions and from true connection with others, or your own sense of self. You are tired of living in a state of being stuck and are ready to do the deep work required to feel fully alive again.
The Individual Navigating a Major Life Transition
You are facing a significant life change, whether that is a divorce, a career shift, an empty nest, or a profound loss, and it has shaken your sense of self. The ground beneath you feels unstable, and you need more than a weekly check-in to navigate the uncertainty. You are looking for a concentrated space to process the past, grieve what has been lost, and intentionally create your next chapter.
The Veteran of Talk Therapy Who Has Hit a Plateau
You have been in weekly therapy before. You can articulate your history, you understand your patterns, and you know why you feel the way you do. But the intellectual understanding has not translated into a felt sense of change in your body. You still get triggered, you still feel the weight of the past, and you are looking for a deeper, more somatic approach to finally process and release it.
The Couple Caught in the Same Painful Relationship Cycles
You love each other, but you feel more like adversaries than partners. The same arguments happen on a loop, leaving you both feeling hurt, misunderstood, and lonelier than ever. You are on the brink of giving up but have a sense that there is still something worth fighting for. You need a dedicated, focused space to stop the fight and learn how to find your way back to each other.
The High-Functioning Professional Feeling a Deep Disconnect
On the outside, you have it all together. You are successful, respected, and driven. On the inside, you are running on empty, plagued by a persistent anxiety, a sense of imposter syndrome, or a deep feeling of burnout that no amount of achievement can fix. You are used to solving problems, but this one feels different, and you are ready for a more profound solution than simply managing the symptoms.
The Science Behind Why Intensive Therapy Works
The intensive model isn’t a new invention. It is a strategic and evidence-based approach that creates the ideal conditions for your nervous system to heal. It works by leveraging what neuroscience teaches us about how lasting change actually happens in the brain.
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1. It Overcomes the Weekly Whiplash Weekly therapy is a powerful tool, but it can sometimes feel like taking one step forward and two steps back. You make progress in a session, only to have those gains chipped away by the stress of the following week. It gives your mind’s defenses plenty of time to rebuild its walls. An intensive format minimizes this whiplash. By immersing you in the therapeutic process, we create a continuous, protected space for deep work, without the constant interruption of daily life.
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2. It Is Designed For How Your Brain Heals Weekly therapy is a powerful tool, but it can sometimes feel like taking one step forward and two steps back. You make progress in a session, only to have those gains chipped away by the stress of the following week. It gives your mind’s defenses plenty of time to rebuild its walls. An intensive format minimizes this whiplash. By immersing you in the therapeutic process, we create a continuous, protected space for deep work, without the constant interruption of daily life.
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3. It Leads to Faster, More Lasting Change. The research is clear. Intensive therapy programs consistently show lower dropout rates and more rapid and significant reductions in symptoms of trauma and PTSD. This is not because we are forcing a change. It is because the format is aligned with your biology. We are simply creating the dedicated time and space required for your nervous system to do what it is naturally designed to do: process experience, integrate it, and move toward wholeness. It is an approach that honors the depth of your experience by giving it the attention it deserves.
The Science Behind Why Intensive Therapy Works
The intensive model isn’t a new invention. It is a strategic and evidence-based approach that creates the ideal conditions for your nervous system to heal. It works by leveraging what neuroscience teaches us about how lasting change actually happens in the brain.
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1. It Overcomes the Weekly Whiplash Weekly therapy is a powerful tool, but it can sometimes feel like taking one step forward and two steps back. You make progress in a session, only to have those gains chipped away by the stress of the following week. It gives your mind’s defenses plenty of time to rebuild its walls. An intensive format minimizes this whiplash. By immersing you in the therapeutic process, we create a continuous, protected space for deep work, without the constant interruption of daily life.
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2. It Is Designed For How Your Brain Heals Weekly therapy is a powerful tool, but it can sometimes feel like taking one step forward and two steps back. You make progress in a session, only to have those gains chipped away by the stress of the following week. It gives your mind’s defenses plenty of time to rebuild its walls. An intensive format minimizes this whiplash. By immersing you in the therapeutic process, we create a continuous, protected space for deep work, without the constant interruption of daily life.
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3. It Leads to Faster, More Lasting Change. The research is clear. Intensive therapy programs consistently show lower dropout rates and more rapid and significant reductions in symptoms of trauma and PTSD. This is not because we are forcing a change. It is because the format is aligned with your biology. We are simply creating the dedicated time and space required for your nervous system to do what it is naturally designed to do: process experience, integrate it, and move toward wholeness. It is an approach that honors the depth of your experience by giving it the attention it deserves.
Work with Kristen: Deep, Focused Healing
With more than two decades of clinical experience, Kristen brings a rare combination of depth, training, and presence to her intensive work. She has been practicing EMDR for years (long before it became mainstream) and integrates it seamlessly with Emotionally Focused Therapy, Relational Life Therapy, and systemic approaches to create transformative, focused healing experiences.
Kristen is EMDR certified and extensively trained in trauma, attachment, couples therapy, and leadership. She holds multiple advanced certifications and has completed post-graduate training that spans trauma processing, relationship repair, and professional supervision. Her work is both evidence-based and deeply relational, blending structure with empathy to help clients move through long-standing patterns that traditional weekly therapy cannot always reach.
Clients describe Kristen’s style as grounded, intuitive, and direct. She offers the clarity and containment needed to do deep work while creating space for compassion, reflection, and repair.
If you are ready for focused, immersive work that gets to the core of what keeps you stuck, Kristen’s intensives are designed to help you move beyond old cycles and experience lasting change.
Investing in your care
We operate as a private-pay practice, which means we choose to not bill insurance directly. Private pay aligns with our values and means we answer to you, not them. It means we can offer the personalized care you deserve. Longer sessions if needed, treatment plans that evolve with you, not with arbitrary session limits. No diagnoses weaponized in permanent records. No justifying your humanity to meet “medical necessity” criteria. Just real therapy, built around your actual needs. We also provide superbills you can submit for out-of-network reimbursement, and help you navigate that process.
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Payment Plans: We understand that investing in an intensive can feel like a big step, both financially and emotionally. To make this work more accessible, we offer flexible payment plans for all therapy intensives. You can divide the cost into smaller payments made before and after your intensive, allowing you to plan and budget without delaying your healing.
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Let's Connect
You don’t need to have it all figured out. Just reach out and see what happens. Whether you’re seeking weekly therapy, a focused intensive, or aren’t quite sure what fits best, our team is here to guide you toward healing that feels human and connection that transforms.
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Collegeville Therapy & Telehealth
We offer in-person therapy located in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, in a calm and welcoming space designed to help you feel safe and comfortable. Free parking is available, and the building is accessible for clients with mobility needs.
If you prefer virtual therapy, we also offer telehealth sessions for clients anywhere in Pennsylvania through a secure, HIPAA-compliant platform. Virtual sessions are ideal for those with busy schedules, transportation challenges, or a preference for privacy and flexibility.
Wherever you are, coeo makes therapy accessible, connected, and personal.